Books
Book Week’s Scottish digital festival returns
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former Scotland footballer Pat Nevin are just two of the big names taking part in this year’s Book Week Scotland Digital Festival. Book Week Scotland’s award-nominated event will return for a second year, after the success of 2017’s inaugural virtual event programme. After engaging over half a million people last year…
Read MoreWild Wanderings: A Life Amongst Mountains
Phil Gribbon encompasses in a single book some of the most unbelievable stories lived during his 70 years of mountaineering in Wild Wanderings: A Life Amongst Mountains. The book is divided into ‘tales,’ each from a different expedition in which he makes and discoveries or encounters and overcomes new challenges. Gribbon paints a vivid picture,…
Read MoreSchools to receive copy of new Iolaire book
Schools are being presented with a book which marks the worst maritime UK disaster, as its centenary approaches. As part of the Dìleab (Legacy) project, all schools in the Western Isles will be gifted a signed copy of the new Acair publication, The Darkest Hour, which is the most comprehensive account to date of the Iolaire…
Read MoreDiscovering the megalithic sites of the nation
This comprehensive guide to prehistoric sites in Britain and Ireland is unparalleled. Divided into the different regions of the area, every standing stone or chambered tomb is paired with its location, a description, and extensive information on it, its history at times mingled with folk stories. It is also highly original in its addition of…
Read MoreThe fifth and final part of our short story
Today we bring you the concluding part of Foxcastle, our exclusive short story. Handheld Press, which is run by Kate Macdonald, who is originally from Aberdeen, has this week reprinted Kingdoms of Elfin, a collection of 16 short stories, five of which are set in Scotland. Kate said: ‘These five stories are set in Scotland,…
Read MoreThe fourth part of our exclusive short story Foxcastle
We continue our exclusive short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Foxcastle, taken from her last collection of short stories, Kingdoms of Elfin. This has been republished this week by Handheld Press, which is run by Kate Macdonald, who is originally from Aberdeen. Kate said: ‘Originally written for the New Yorker magazine, these 16 stories were…
Read MoreStitch Up is a page turner you won’t put down
The fourth-instalment of the highly acclaimed Best Defence Mystery series has finally arrived. Now happily married with his young daughter safely at home, Robbie Munro’s life is finally an ordinary one. But with a past like his, that can’t last long. An old flame re-enters his life asking for help on an unexplained death. At…
Read MoreWe bring you part three of our short story Foxcastle
Today, we bring your part three of our exclusive online short story, Foxcastle. Foxcastle is part of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s last collection of short stories, Kingdoms of Elfin. These are glorious dark fantasies, of which five are set in Scotland, The Five Black Swans, The Climate of Exile, The Late Sir Glamie, The Occupation and…
Read MoreAlong The Divide: Walking The Wild Spine of Scotland
Described as possibly the world’s most experienced long-distance walker, Chris Townsend returns with a new memoir . This details his journey across Scotland’s Watershed, which runs between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, a distance of 1,200km or 745 miles. Townsend, author of 22 books on the outdoors including the award-winning The Backpacker’s Handbook,…
Read MorePart two of our online exclusive short story – Foxcastle
Scottish Field Online presents the second part of our exclusive short story. Kate Macdonald, who is originally from Aberdeen but recently moved to Bath, is behind Handheld Press, and has handpicked stories from the past and the present, and today, Halloween, she is Sylvia Townsend Warner’s last collection of short stories, Kingdoms of Elfin. Kate…
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